By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
